Art Quotes
Art washes away the dust of everyday life.Pablo Picasso
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.Richard Adams
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.John F. Kennedy
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.Paula Giddings
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.Rene Angelil
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.Ezra Loomis Pound
What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.John Ciardi
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello".
When I was one - And - Twenty, I heard a wise man say, Give pounds and crowns and guineas, But not your heart away. Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free. But I was one - And - Twenty, No use to talk to me.A. E. Houseman
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.Bertrand Russell
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.Thomas Carlyle
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.Leo Tolstoy
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul - Mate is the one you are actually married to.J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.A. N. Whitehead
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.William Shakespeare
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The covers of this book are too far apart.Ambrose Bierce
The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.Tod Johnson
We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.Pablo Picasso
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.Marcel Duchamp
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.Bernard Berenson
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.Edna St. Vincent Millay
No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self - Expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?Robert Cecil Day Lewis
We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.Sarah Ban Breathnach
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it - - who can say this is not greatness.William Makepeace Thackeray
Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.Jeff Pesis
Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.Louis Celine
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.Carl Sandburg
To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart.Bob Allisat
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.Charles Dickens
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.Ellen Goodman
If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.Chinese Prove
There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.Samuel Butle
